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“…Los personajes que las pueblan son un ejemplo excelso del ars moriendi, del arte de saber ir muriendo, enfermando con esperanza y con coraje, con cordialidad y compasión. …”

“…Los ensayos cubren un amplio espectro del quehacer y padecer humano la literatura moderna, el deporte, la deshumanización del arte de amar, el sentido de la historia privada en su plenitud, la conducta y su análisis, así como el examen crítico de algunas corrientes contemporáneas de la psicoterapia…”

“…En su visita a la torre de este peculiar vecino, el autor dialoga implícita o explícitamente con otros lectores de Montaigne –Azorín, Ortega y Gasset, Jorge Edwards, Marc Fumaroli o Jean Starobinski–, construyendo así un ensayo narrativo sobre el arte de ensayar, realizado desde dentro, desde el desafío continuo que supone la alianza de la reflexión y la recreación" -- Contracubierta…”

“…The Bible was arguably the most influential book during this time, affecting spiritual and intellectual life, popular devotion, theology, political structures, art, and architecture. In an account that is sensitive to the religiously diverse world of the Middle Ages, Frans van Liere offers here an accessible introduction to the study of the Bible in this period. …”

“…The scope of the volume ranges from formal analysis of the communication process by an information theorist (Professor Mackay) and by a linguist (Professor Lyons), to accounts of the role of expression in the theatre (Dr Jonathan Miller) and in the visual arts (Professor Gombrich). There are contributions to the discussion written from the point of view of the zoologist, the ethologist, the psychologist and anthropologist…”

“…El tema de este libro es la retórica, el arte de convencer. Tras una interesante visión histórica, el autor trata de una realidad apasionante e inquietante: el uso político del lenguaje y sus efectos persuasivos. …”

“…Discusses the life and works of Augustine within their full historical context, rather than privileging the theological context Presents Augustine's life, works and leading ideas in the cultural context of the late Roman world, providing a vibrant and engaging sense of Augustine in action in his own time and place Opens up a new phase of study on Augustine, sensitive to the many and varied perspectives of scholarship on late Roman culture State-of-the-art essays by leading academics in this fiel…”
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“…A medio camino entre la novela y el ensayo, el escritor japonés Natsume Soseki ofrece al lector una visión, no exenta de humor, sobre el sentido de la vida y la belleza que no se deja apresar. Paisaje, arte y contemplación se aúnan en el interior del protagonista, un pintor poeta que se demora en la tarea singular de desvelar la realidad…”

“…The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements is a compilation of original, state-of-the-art essays by internationally recognized scholars. …”

“…Encontramos a hombres de fe que, además de sus obligaciones espirituales, ejercen profesionalmente en diversos ámbitos: ciencia, arte, educación, sociología, teología... Estas confesiones versarán sobre su vida personal, el catolicismo, la adaptación a otras culturas y más cuestiones de actualidad. …”

“…In the theoretical section, well-known authors discuss the materials used in pavilions, starting with influences from the Orient, India, and Asia, and moving on to significant twentiethcentury pavilions and today's issue of temporary buildings somewhere between art and architecture. In addition, this volume documents the research and development of a summer pavilion for the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt am Main done by the offices of Barkow Leibinger and Werner Sobek Stuttgart."…”

“…The volume embraces many other related spheres of Arabic culture including philosophy, art, architecture and music. It also extends the subject to other literatures - especially Hebrew and Romance literatures - that burgeoned alongside Arabic and created the distinctive hybrid culture of medieval Iberia. …”
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“…Based on shooting scripts, schedules, internal memos, interviews, articles, lectures, and personal correspondence, this work creates a concrete picture of his struggles and successes, bringing to life the intelligent, perceptive, and passionate man who, for all his failings as a person, was utterly uncompromising in his art.--From publisher description…”
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“…Brill's Companion to the Reception of Euripides provides a comprehensive account of the influence and appropriation of all extant Euripidean plays since their inception: from antiquity to modernity, across cultures and civilizations, from multiple perspectives and within a broad range of human experience and cultural trends, namely literature, intellectual history, visual arts, music, opera and dance, stage and cinematography. …”

“…Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more. In short, philology was the queen of the human sciences. …”

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“…Georg Simmel, filosofo e sociologo, ha posto l'estetica degli 'oggetti' dell'arte e dell'architettura come uno dei temi centrali della sua riflessione postkantiana, relativistica, fenomenologica e 'prerazionale'. …”

“…Now in Eugene Boring's translation, and with his bibliographic revisions, it represents the state of the art in the English-speaking world. This comprehensive critical introduction combines historical and theological analysis. …”

“…This fluent and engaging overview of early Chinese civilization explores key topics including the origins of the written language, the rise of the state, the Shang and Zhou religions, bureaucracy, law and governance, the evolving nature of war, the creation of empire, the changing image of art, and the philosophical search for social order. …”